Power production jumps 14% as new projects come online

Government’s efforts to overcome the energy crisis started to bear fruit as addition of new nuclear, coal and imported gas-fired power projects helped increase electricity generation in July 2017.

The power regulator has reported an increase of 14% in power production to 12,496.63 gigawatt-hour (GWh) in July from 10,991.82 GWh in the same month of previous year.

Published in The Express Tribune, 8th September, 2017.